Seeing G: John Berger, the Black Panthers and the Booker Prize, 50 years on | The Booker Prize
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In this new film to mark the 50th anniversary of John Berger’s Booker win, Jo Hamya revisits the prize’s most controversial moment, reveals what happened to Berger’s prize money and explores the legacy of his 1972 novel, G.
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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Really enjoyed this video. Berger was one of the most deeply humane artists of our time. TO THE WEDDING and G are staggering.
Amazing production! I've always admired Berger's "Ways of Seeing" (as a book and as a documentary series, as well as a response to Kenneth Clark's work), and now I look forward to finally reading "G." through the lens of this thoughtful contextualization. Thank you!
My mother, Jacqueline Wheldon, wrote the original blurb for G (John insisted), which was praised by Frank Kermode as a fine example of this very niche literary form. I remember John for for his lovely deep dark lispy voice and his motorbike and accompanying leather jacket, which as a child i found thrilling. G is not an easy book, and would probably not get published today, for a number of reasons. Incredible to think it won the Booker. Deserves this fine little film and probably more to do it proper justice.
Thanks for the upload.
Just read his speech b4 comong here. Profound on several levels. When you dehumanise a group you wind up dehumanizing yourself.